A palace of one's own: Stanislas I's Kiosks and the idea of self-representation.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The notion of self-representation, understood as a deliberate distancing from one's own political, cultural, and social contexts, emerged in the Enlightenment as an explicit goal of action. (1) Differing from the notion of representation, which is a process of objectification of power, as in the case of Louis XIV or Frederick the Great, self-representation developed as a force from the periphery of power and is entangled in the psychology of the displaced and the politically precarious. (2) Its aim, ultimately, was not so much dismantling the hierarchical relationship between ...

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